“Agreement on … the roll over of the sanctions against Russia,” the spokesman, Barend Leyts, tweeted, confirming the bloc’s judgment that Moscow had failed to implement the conditions of the Minsk peace agreement.
The EU hit Russia’s energy, financial and arms sectors over Moscow’s role in the conflict in Ukraine, and prolonged them repeatedly as the Kremlin vows not to return the peninsula to Kyiv and a frozen conflict has taken hold in Ukraine’s east. (Reporting by Robin Emmott)
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